Happier Easter

Well, today turned our Easter weekend all around. And I am thankful for it.

We started with an announcement from Jo that he was HUNGRY! In traditional Jo style it was shouted at the top of his lungs from his room to ours. That was great news, as when he is sick he doesn't want to eat anything. Hooray for grumbly tummies.

Since the smaller Sprout was finally healthy it was time to do our Easter weekend (all in one day). No lazing about in jammies this morning. We had eggs to hunt!

The Sprouts each had two colours of plastic eggs to hunt for outside. When they had both found all their eggs, they brought them in and opened them up. Inside were clues to where their Easter baskets could be found. Jo's clues were a picture puzzle. Fi's clues were word chunks that she had to assemble into a sentence. The treasure was hidden in the dryer.

Then is was a quick pack-up and a dash into town. Both LK and I were feeling a bit cabin feverish (two days with a little boy sweating all over me is not my favourite way to spend the weekend). We needed to get out of the house. And we really needed groceries.

After all the necessary errands were taken care of it was time to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather. We went to the park. There we discovered that we are no longer the parents of little kids. Our kids are less playgrounders and more explorers. So we left the park for a hiking trail. This was much more every body's speed and went terrifically well.

Until we climbed down from the hill over the train tracks and found the OPP waiting for us. Oops! Apparently somebody had phoned in that there were kids on the tracks. We weren't technically on the tracks at all. And we were being responsible grown-ups by hiking with our kids. However, some caring soul who was watching out for the safety of the community was being cautious. To be clear, there were no signs to warn us off. In fact the trail had a little sign about 500 metres before the tracks that said "Tunnel" and led straight to the tracks. To me that is an invitation to explore.

Anyway, out of concern for the "kids on the tracks", trains were being held up and the police were sent out to check things out. We apologized. The OPP guys were lovely, in fact Jo made friends with them as we walked back to their car. They gave the Sprouts the grand tour of their cruiser and talked to Jo on the megaphone. He was quiet shy in the moment, but told us all about it on the way home (like we weren't right there beside him).

We ended the day with our first visit of the season to DQ. It was especially sweet since this was the first day that we had to peel layers off and felt too warm by the end of our hike.

I can feel summer just around the corner.